A Strategy for the Future .... Out of the Past

In the not so distant past, an adolescent, riding his bicycle by our home, yelled "Nazi's" as he peddled by. Obviously, something he had heard someone else – probably an adult – say and was repeating.

My immediate thought was, "Quite obviously, kid, you have no idea what a Nazi is, and neither does whoever it is you are parroting."

Which doesn't say much for public education. Had the kid the education he should have, but isn't getting, he would realize that the restructuring going on in his school has the same foundation in systems philosophy as does Nazism, Fascism, and Communism.

Nazi Germany was, as the USSR was, another experiment in systems philosophy, one that should never be forgotten, as the rise to power of Lenin, Stalin, and Mussolini should never be forgotten.

And while force — armed takeover — was the tool of implementation of systems philosophy in yesteryear, the tool of implementation now is gradual transformation. However, whether implemented by force or by gradualism, tyranny has been and will be the result as systems philosophy cannot tolerate dissension.

The term Nazi stands for national socialist. For those who need reminding, USSR stands for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Italy, under Mussolini, was fascist; Mussolini and Hitler being allies during World War II. Basically, the only difference between the three ideologies is the make-up of the controlling party; the oppressive effect on the populace is the same.

In his book, Ominous Parallels, Leonard Piekoff outlines the frightening parallels resulting from the restructuring of Germany under Hitler prior to World War II and the restructuring of America happening now. That is because both find basis in systems philosophy. One of the parallels that should be a real eye-opener for Americans (were they to know it), was the rise in juvenile violence.

In his book, A Strategy for the Future; The Systems Approach to World Order, Ervin Laszlo acknowledges the "Hitler-problem" inherent to systems philosophy, and although he does not acknowledge it, also of the humanist worldview that informs it. In his book, published in 1974, Laszlo lays out what is being implemented in America right now under such names as reinventing government, education reform, school to work, total quality management, the high performance work organization and a plethora of other "forward-thinking" progressive names. Laszlo was born in communist Hungary, and is, at this time, working with the United Nations.

So, with this said ... why aren't the American people up in arms about this? It's simple. When people don't know from where they came, they have no idea that what is being foisted on them may not be in their best interests. For too long, the true foundations of our nation have been omitted from classrooms nationwide. Children today, coming out of public schools, and too many adults, have no idea from where they came, and therefore, no idea where they are going. They have been taught, in many different ways, to give up their rights in the name of security. In the words of Cicero — in so doing, in the end, they will lose both.

Lynn M Stuter

March 2002

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